Hackers are a threat to society and the same has been proved again as the official YouTube channel of the Supreme Court of India got hacked this Friday. While the main focus of the channel remains on live stream hearings of Constitution Bench cases; as of now, you can see the channel showing videos promoting a cryptocurrency named XRP developed by US-based company Ripple Labs.
The incident grabbed eyeballs as soon as a blank video with the title ‘Brad Garlinghouse: Ripple Responds to The SEC’s $2 Billion Fine! XRP Price Prediction’ went live on the Supreme Court’s YouTube channel. For those who are unaware, Brad Garlinghouse is Ripple Labs’ CEO and the company has a tainted history with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. Not only this but the hackers have also made some of the original videos from the channel private.
The hackers changed the name and logo of the channel as well. And this has not happened for the first time. In the past, hackers have hijacked multiple YouTube accounts of popular personalities all over the globe. These hacked accounts are mainly used for posting videos in which the hackers offer humongous XRP rewards in return for minute payments. With this strategy, the hackers dupe the viewers into paying a large sum of money collectively. As reported by Bar and Bench, the officials from the Supreme Court are looking into the matter in order to restore things to normal as soon as they can.
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